In 2007, Phil Collins, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford reunited for their first tour in more than a decade, and sold-out concerts greeted the British band whose roots ran deep in the progressive rock scene.►

by Dave Thompson — 45 years ago, the phenomenon we know as Beatlemania truly started, and while the band had already been top of the pops in Britain and Europe for more than a year before they arrived in America, it was only with their conquest of America that they could truly take on the world. ►

Creedence Clearwater Revival was a steady presence on the radio throughout 1969, and the red-hot band was a television mainstay that year, too. CCR drummer Doug Clifford has vivid memories of the band’s three TV appearances in ’69. ►